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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: bluemeth on November 14, 2012, 09:50 am
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iv downloaded gnupg-1.4.12, but when i open the folder, its just a bunch of text files and scrips
not to sound like a total noob, but how do i instal it?
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you might already have gpg installed on your distro.
type into the terminal
gpg --help
and if it comes up with a list of commands then it's already installed. it was good to go on my distro (unless i'd already installed it without realising but unlikely)
this will give you pretty much everything you need to know about using it at the command line
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto
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Try gpg4usb mate.
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Sounds like you downloaded the source code for the program. Linux is very different than windows... it's not uncommon to download the source code for a program and actually compile it yourself into an executable before installing it on your computer.
It means almost everything that you run in Linux is custom-built for your specific CPU and stuff, so it's awfully efficient... but it's an awful pain a lot of the time too. In Ubuntu, just use "apt-get" or "aptitude" to install stuff. Ubuntu has pre-made packages for practically everything, so you can almost always just type "apt-get install URMOM" and it'll just download and install it all for you.
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Get "GNU Emacs" and "Seahorse" and you'll be good to encrypt ;)
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when i type in 'apt-get install gnu macs'
it tells me it could not open lock file. unable to lock admin directory and asks if im root.
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further, when i type 'sudo apt-get install gpa' it tells me its unable to find package
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No offense to the kind fellow who suggested it, but I don't think you want emacs. It's a programmer's text editor and will probably just be confusing for you -- it's got great stuff, so it's worth learning if you write programs and whatnot, but... otherwise, unless it's fun for you just don't bother. kword is fine :)
So your regular user account doesn't have permission to change system files, and installing software is included in that. Hence the sudo. It said it didn't exist because it doesn't :) What you want to do is try typing "sudo aptitude search NAME" -- often using the exact name of the program works nicely, but sometimes they're named oddly. Like firefox is actually a package named "mozilla-firefox" I think, if an example is helpful (Mozilla is the organization that maintains Firefox).
If you don't have "aptitude" installed yet, type exactly this: `sudo apt-get install aptitude` w/o quotes and it'll install it. Also, in linux, a space means a break between two things. Basically. I mean long story short -- not *always*, but by typing "install gnu macs" the program thought you were asking it to install two programs, one named "gnu" and one names "macs". If you want a space in something, then put quotes around it. Like this line it would treat as installing one program even though it's two different words:
sudo apt-get install "gnu macs"
Now that program doesn't exist, but it's just an example of how to say you mean one thing with two different words.
Hope that's a helpful start for you; I'm afraid Linux is awfully confusing if you don't have much experience with computers. Try www.linuxquestions.org if you need more help (but dear God, don't expect them to be okay with trying to buy drugs or anything, FYI).